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1999 Fall Central Sectional Meeting
Austin, TX, October 8-10, 1999
Meeting #948

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena

  • Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena, I
    Room 5.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
    Organizers:
    Jose Antonio Carrillo, University of Texas, Austin carri@math.utexas.edu
    Irene M. Gamba, University of Texas, Austin gamba@math.utexas.edu

    • 4:00 p.m.
      Structure of an infinitely strong shock waves.
      Carlo Cercignani*, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
      Aldo Frezzotti, Milano, Italy
      P Grosfils, Milano,Italy
      (948-82-59)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Approximate Summation of the Chapman-Enskog Expansion.
      Marshall Slemrod*, Univ. of Wisconsin
      (948-76-08)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Unsteady Continuum/Rarefied Gasdynamics Simulations with a Hybrid Euler/Monte Carlo Approach.
      David Goldstein*, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
      Roberto Roveda, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
      Philip Varghese, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
      (948-82-61)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      Transport eauations and their diffusion approximations.
      Moulay D Tidriri*, Iowa State University
      (948-65-315)
    • 6:00 p.m.
      Some properties of kinetic and macroscopic equations in granular media.
      Alexander V Bobylev, Keldysh Institute, Moscow, Russia
      Jose A Carrillo*, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
      Irene M Gamba, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
      (948-82-69)
    • 6:30 p.m.
      Vibrated Granular Media and Kinetic Theory.
      Mark D. Shattuck*, University of Texas at Austin
      Chris Bizon, Colorado Research Associates
      Jack B. Swift, University of Texas at Austin
      Harry L. Swinney, University of Texas at Austin
      (948-76-267)

  • Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
    Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena, II
    Room 5.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
    Organizers:
    Jose Antonio Carrillo, University of Texas, Austin carri@math.utexas.edu
    Irene M. Gamba, University of Texas, Austin gamba@math.utexas.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      High frequency behavior of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation wtih random inhomogeneities.
      Shi Jin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
      George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
      Albert Fannjiang, University of California, Davis
      (948-65-07)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      A High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Method for 2D Incompressible Flows.
      Jian-Guo Liu, University of Maryland
      Chi-Wang Shu*, Brown University
      (948-65-14)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Maximum Entropy Closure for Nonparabolic Band Transport in Semiconductors .
      Angelo M Anile*, University of Catania
      Vittorio Romano, Politecnico di bari
      (948-76-15)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Entropy Based Numerical Methods For Kinetic And Fluid Dynamic Semiconductor Models.
      Christian Ringhofer*, Arizona State University
      (948-65-21)
    • 11:00 a.m.
      Relaxation, Stability and Oscillation in a Reactive Transport Model of Bioremediation.
      Jack Xin*, UT Texas,Austin
      (948-35-81)

  • Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena, III
    Room 5.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
    Organizers:
    Jose Antonio Carrillo, University of Texas, Austin carri@math.utexas.edu
    Irene M. Gamba, University of Texas, Austin gamba@math.utexas.edu

    • 3:00 p.m.
      Novel results in the kinetic thoery of vehicular traffic.
      Paul Nelson*, Texas A\&M University
      Alexandros Sopaskis, Texas A\&M University
      (948-76-13)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Kinetic formulation for system of two conservation laws.
      Benoit Perthame, ENS-Ulm
      Athanasios Tzavaras*, Univ. of Wisconsin
      (948-35-16)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Inviscid limits of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation.
      Ansgar Jungel*, TU Berlin
      (948-35-25)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Strong uncertainty principle and stability of fronts.
      Eric A. Carlen, Georgia Tech
      Maria C. Carvalho*, Lisbon University and Georgia Tech
      E. Orlandi, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tre
      (948-35-180)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Asymptotic Analysis of some Nonlinear Schroedinger Equations for charged particle transport.
      Norbert J. Mauser*, Univ. of Vienna and Courant Institute
      (948-81-60)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      Derivation of Fokker-Planck type equations from coupled quantum oscillators.
      Francois Castella, University of Rennes, France
      Laszlo Erdos*, Georgiatech, Atlanta
      Florian Frommlet, Technical Univesity of Berlin, Germany
      Peter Markowich, University of Vienna,Austria
      (948-81-18)
    • 6:00 p.m.
      Self-consistent quantum-diffusion models.
      Anton Arnold*, TU-Berlin, MA 6-2
      (948-35-09)
    • 6:30 p.m.
      Magnetically created instability in a collisionless plasma.
      Walter Strauss*, Brown University
      (948-35-356)

  • Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena, IV
    Room 5.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
    Organizers:
    Jose Antonio Carrillo, University of Texas, Austin carri@math.utexas.edu
    Irene M. Gamba, University of Texas, Austin gamba@math.utexas.edu

    • 10:00 a.m.
      Entropy Production and Convergence to Equilibrium for the Povzner and Povzner-Vlasov Equations.
      Eric A Carlen*, Ga Tech
      M C Carvalho, Ga Tech
      Joel Lebowitz, Rutgers University
      (948-82-148)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Entropy dissipation methods in kinetic theory.
      Cedric Villani*, ENS, DMI
      (948-35-23)
    • 11:00 a.m.
      Acoustic and Stokes Limits for the Boltzmann Equation.
      C. David Levermore*, Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona,
      (948-82-109)
    • 11:30 a.m.
      Some geometric mechanisms for transport in classical dynamical systems.
      Rafael de la Llave*, Univ. of Texas at Austin
      (948-35-11)
    • 12:00 p.m.
      Hamiltonian Description of Vlasov Dynamics: Action-Angle Variables for the Continuous Spectrum.
      Philip J Morrison*, Department of Physics and Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
      (948-82-62)
    • 12:30 p.m.
      Asymmetric Quasiperiodic Solution of Hartree-Fock Systems, and their Counterparts for the Vlasov-Poisson System.
      Jean Dolbeault, CEREMADE
      Reinhard Illner*, University of Victoria
      Horst Lange, Universitaet Koeln
      (948-81-49)
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